Those who prefer searching information on their phones than a PC can opt for the deCarta Mobile Search. Adding to the user’s convenience, it is specially designed for mobile operators, directory service providers and handset manufacturers, this new application claims to be a better alternative to the existing Internet search engines.
Like the current search engines, deCarta Mobile Search app offers several features that include maps, address searching, routing, directions and freeform text search of content from popular content providers. The app allows easy search of content like restaurant reviews, weather, traffic updates, movies, events, news updates, yellow pages and many more.
It offers several features to mobile operators, directory providers and handset manufacturers that allow adding content and managing the way it is presented to users. The app incorporates dynamic spatial search algorithms, permitting users to find more important information than the traditional search engines.
Mobile Search app appears like a native application incorporated with “write once, run anywhere” paradigm and rapid deployment of JavaScript. This feature-rich app is developed in JavaScript to function with W3C compliant widget runtime frameworks with a wide range of handset brands, models and operating systems. The Mobile Search widget connects to deCarta’s dynamic Location-Based Service servers that elevate the mobile search experience. It allows the content to be customized and distinguished with any type of geo-referenced information. Mobile operators, directory service providers and handset manufacturers can control and improve their local content and business model with the innovative deCarta Mobile Search.
T-Mobile plans to launch the deCarta Mobile Search application in the fourth quarter of 2009. The app will be initially launched in the UK, Germany, Austria and the Netherlands. There is no word on pricing.